Percentage of households with access to public transportation in their neighborhood American: 54 German: 85 Source: Bureau of the Census, ...

According to estimates by the United Nations, 175 million people (2.9 percent of the world's population) live outside their country of b...

Who populates the gifted classes, honors programs, and advanced placement courses in the nation's middle and high schools? The nation...

Percentage of parents who say they never feel angry at their children: 46. Source: Census Bureau, A Child's Day: 2003, Survey of Income...

Now that most women are in the labor force, men are doing more around the house. But women still shoulder most of the burden for a variety o...

The homeownership rate fell for the second year in a row, dropping to 68.8 percent of households in 2006. This is down from the record high ...

Percentage of Americans who describe themselves as "dog persons": 70. Source: The Gallup Poll

The number of workers aged 16 to 19 fell by a jaw dropping 1 million between 2000 and 2005 (from 8.3 million to 7.2 million). According to p...

Does the United States have a mainly positive or negative influence in the world? Percent answering "positive"... Americans: ...

How do the demographics of Congress compare with those of the average American? This Congressional Research Service report (pdf) can tell y...

The 51 percent majority of Americans believe in evolution. A smaller 42 percent adhere to the notion of creationism, according to the Pew Re...

Percentage of 18-to-25-year-olds who think their generation is unique: 68. Source: Pew Research Center

Percentage of Americans who think home air conditioning is a necessity, not a luxury they could do without: 1996: 51% 2006: 70% Sou...

Move over Academy Awards, Grammies, Emmys, Tony Awards, Nobel Prizes, and Time Magazine Man of the Year. Make room for the Demographic Trend...

Back in the old days, when I was just a kid pretending to be a demographer (the fire ant Census was particularly difficult, by the way), the...

Percentage of U.S. households with no adults who speak fluent English: 3 Source: Census Bureau

For the life of me, I will never understand why television advertisers are so fixated on the 18-to-49 demographic. This morning, as I peruse...

If you draw two lines—one running North&#45South, the other East&#45West—so that each divides the population in half, the point of i...

Median age of the U.S. population by race and Hispanic origin: (the median is the age at which half are older and half are younger) White no...

Take a guess: Among the 50 states, which one ranks first in the proportion of (native-born) residents who were born in the state? The surpri...